Cycle Time

Another way to improve cycle time is by having fewer levels to traverse when a decision does need vertical leaps and reducing the latency of escalations. One element of this is escalating early and often rather than letting issues drag out. One thing that helps with that is assigning a Single Threaded Owner for each critical area of work. That is s

1. Cycle time is a function of how many vertical leaps a discussion has to traverse and how many people are involved at each level. The best way to reduce cycle time is to reduce vertical leaps because it affects both variables. In layman’s terms, this means the most important change to make is to push decision making down. The target isn’t a true “bo

Another way to improve cycle time is to make decisions more durable so the cycle doesn’t have to repeat later. One way we have found to do that is make decisions on demos and prototypes rather than docs and decks.